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Where Have We Seen The Taking Woodstock Trailer Before?

Lindsay Robertson — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:40:39 +0000

On last night’s Important Things With Demetri Martin, Demetri used his show’s platform to introduce the summer Ang Lee movie (and to explain who Ang Lee is, wince), Taking Woodstock, in which he stars as real-life-person and memoirist Eliot Tiber, an interior designer who helped run a small hotel in upstate New York and was bewildered to find himself in the middle of history when he helped get Woodstock off the ground. You can’t tell much about a movie from a trailer, but this is definitely not what I was expecting:

Emile Hirsch’s Voting Ad Shows Us Where Depression Hurts

Lindsay Robertson — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:47:36 +0000

It’s another celeb get-out-the-vote ad, this time starring Into The Wild‘s Emile Hirsch as a lonely young man you either want to slap or hug (let’s call him “Alexander Superbored”). I’m finding it hard to make fun of this one because it’s so sad, and because I like Emile Hirsch. It seems to be modeled on that maddening Cymbalta commercial:

The First Seven Minutes Of Speed Racer Are Good?

Gabe — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:25:39 +0000

This clip has already been making the blog rounds, and my enthusiasm for Speed Racer has been so low that I was not going to post it. But these first seven minutes actually make the movie look kind of good.

Right? That looks good. It’s got things that appeal to me, like Jason Street, bright colors, CGI cherry blossom trees, and Inspector Gadget cars. You know what, good for Mr. and Mrs. Wachowski. They’ve eaten a lot of shit for this movie so far, but apparently while no one was looking they quietly nailed it. But why do they hate gravity so much? They’re so angry about gravity. I’m pretty sure every time they get together to come up with a new movie idea, there’s one wipe board for concepts and characters, and a dedicated wipe board just for angry rants about how much they want to beat the shit out of gravity.